# Senra

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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| genus = Senra
| parent_authority = [Cav.](/source/Antonio_Jos%C3%A9_Cavanilles)<ref name=GRIN>{{GRIN genus | name = ''Senra'' | id = 11067 | accessdate = 16 April 2017}}</ref>
| species = incana
| authority = [Cav.](/source/Antonio_Jos%C3%A9_Cavanilles) (1786)<ref name=Tropicos>{{Tropicos | 50213195 | accessdate = 16 April 2017}}</ref>
|synonyms={{collapsible list|bullets=true
 |title=Synonymy
 |''Dumreichera'' {{small|Hochst. & Steud.}}
 |''Serraea'' {{small|Spreng.}}
 |''Dumreichera arabica'' {{small|Hochst. & Steud.}}
 |''Gossypium bakeri'' {{small|G.Watt}}
 |''Senra arabica'' {{small|Webb}}
 |''Senra bakeri'' {{small|(G.Watt) Prokh.}}
 |''Senra incana subsp. migiurtinorum'' {{small|Chiov.}}
 |''Senra incana var. scassellatii'' {{small|(Mattei) Senni}}
 |''Senra nubica'' {{small|Webb}}
 |''Senra nubica var. microphylla'' {{small|Mattei}}
 |''Senra nubica var. scassellatii'' {{small|Mattei}}
 |''Senra zoes'' {{small|Volkens & Schweinf.}}
 |''Serraea arabica'' {{small|(Hochst. & Steud.) Mattei}}
 |''Serraea incana'' {{small|(Cav.) Spreng.}}
 |''Serraea nubica'' {{small|(Webb) Mattei}}
 |''Serraea rupestris'' {{small|Edgew.}}
 |''Serraea zoeae'' {{small|(Volkens & Schweinf.) Mattei}}
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|synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web |title=''Senra'' Cav. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26059-1 |website=[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) |access-date=15 November 2025}}</ref><ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Senra incana'' Cav. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:563353-1 |website=[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) |access-date=15 November 2025}}</ref>
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'''''Senra''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in tribe [Hibisceae](/source/Hibisceae) of the family [Malvaceae](/source/Malvaceae). It includes single species, '''''Senra incana''''', an annual or perennial native to northeastern tropical Africa (Kenya to Sudan), the Arabian Peninsula, and India and Pakistan, where it grows in deserts and dry shrublands.<ref name = powo/>

The plant produces the phenolic compounds [coniferaldehyde](/source/coniferaldehyde), [scopoletin](/source/scopoletin), [sinapaldehyde](/source/sinapaldehyde) and [syringaldehyde](/source/syringaldehyde).<ref>Pharmacologically active phenylpropanoids from ''Senra incana''. Farah MH, Samuelsson G. ''[Planta Medica](/source/Planta_Medica)''. 1992 Feb;58(1):14-8.{{doi|10.1055/s-2006-961380}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://plants.jstor.org/flora/flos000234 ''Senra incana'' on JStor]

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Category:Hibisceae
Category:Monotypic Malvaceae genera
Category:Flora of Djibouti
Category:Flora of Eritrea
Category:Flora of Ethiopia
Category:Flora of India (region)
Category:Flora of Kenya
Category:Flora of Oman
Category:Flora of Pakistan
Category:Flora of Saudi Arabia
Category:Flora of Socotra
Category:Flora of Somalia
Category:Flora of Sudan
Category:Flora of Yemen
Category:Plants described in 1786
Category:Taxa named by Antonio José Cavanilles

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